Andre Gide
Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gidewas a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth22 November 1869
CountryFrance
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
The world will be saved by one or two people.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
Do not scorn little victories.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.